Austrian museum Albertina (Vienna) is coming to an end exhibition «From Monet to Picasso», which gives a full picture of one of the most interesting periods in the history of art - the transition from figurative to abstract art. Nearly 250 works - paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures - will plunge into the most important, one might say revolutionary stylistic era in the last 100 years - the era of impressionism and modernism.

in the Albertina exhibition brings together works from two private collections Forberg (Forberg) and Batlayner (Batliner), as well as from our own collection of the museum.

The starting point was the work of French Impressionists, including outstanding works by the late Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, and Post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Cézanne.

mark the next stage of work the group «Nabi» Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Jean Vyuyyara, as well as fovistov - Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminka and Andre Derena.

The exhibition also contains works puantilistskie Paul Sinyaka, became the embodiment of neo-impressioznizma, and works orfistov - Robert Delaunay and František Kupki.

was not without artistic association «Blue Rider» and its participants, among them Franz Marc, August Makeev and Vasily Vasily Kandinsky .

An important step towards the abstract became cubism, which is presented in the exposition of the works of Georges late marriage and Pablo Picasso. They played a huge role in shaping the art of the XX century as a whole.

Alienation and mystification are reflected in the surreal paintings Joan Miro, Paul Klee and René Magritte.

A separate chapter, which is of great importance in this history is devoted to Russian avant-garde, which in the exhibition represent El Lisitsky and Kazimir Malevich .

Complete «transition» painting abstract expressionists Karel Appel, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, as well as neorealista Yves Klein.

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